College of Allied Health Professions

UNMC for the record, July 21, 2023

News items on graduates from the Nebraska AHEC program and the end of the engineering shuttle to Lincoln.

Jul 21, 2023

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UNMC experts in falls document COVID impact

The CAPTURE Falls team collaborated on a study published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality.

Jul 18, 2023

Dawn Venema, PhD

UNMC grad’s life-saving team wins ESPY Award

The Buffalo Bills’ athletic training staff, led by 2004 UNMC graduate Nate Breske, DPT, jumped into action when Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field.

Jul 14, 2023

Nate Breske, DPT. (Image courtesy S.J. CARRERA INC.)

Physicians soon will complete their medical training in Kearney

UNK student Cordelia Harbison shows the excitement behind the planned Rural Health Education Building.

Jul 5, 2023

Cordelia Harbison, far left, a freshman at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, has witnessed the impact physicians can have on their patients in rural areas. It drove her to pursue a career in medicine.

Allied health to offer new Doctor of Medical Science degree

The NU Board of Regents approved the advanced doctorate degree for physician assistants.

Jun 23, 2023

Kyle Meyer, PhD, dean of the UNMC College of Allied Health Professions, and Shaun Horak, DMSc, associate director of the physician assistant program and director of the new DMSc program

Renovated lab open for collaboration on health and wellness

Stakeholders across UNMC supported the redesign of the Physical Therapy Clinical Movement Analysis Lab.

Jun 16, 2023

A ribbon cutting heralded the official opening of a newly renovated health and wellness clinical research lab open to collaborators across UNMC colleges and institutes. From left: Russell McCulloh, MD, Jennifer Larsen, MD, Kenneth Bayles, PhD, Kyle Meyer, PhD, Laura Bilek, PhD, Yvonne Golightly, PhD, and Betsy Becker, DPT, PhD

U.S. News again ranks UNMC’s primary care medical program in nation’s top 10

UNMC also ranked 7th in most medical graduates practicing in rural areas.

May 12, 2023

U.S. News rankings list UNMC programs among the top

With medical school rankings delayed, UNMC’s physician assistant program among nation’s best.

May 2, 2023

Back-o-the-Napkin contest for new medical devices returns

Submissions, due July 1, are accepted from all faculty, students and staff with ideas for innovative medical devices.

May 2, 2023

Allied health alum featured in ASRT Scanner

Chad Schock, who works for CHI Health St. Francis in Grand Island, is a multi-program UNMC alumnus.

Apr 25, 2023